#JuneKnowWhatIMean Recorded on the Winter Solstice, a song for the summer solstice Allison Russell x The Returner LIVE CBC 🎼I’m a summer dream, I’m a real light beam, I’m worthy Don’t you know, don’t you know, don’t you know You are never alone?

"A song about extending grace and soothing comfort to a chosen sister…the kind I have trouble extending to myself…But the beautiful thing is, she’s the same way - and she gives it all back and some. Allison Russell shares "Black Lavender" www.killbeatmusic.com/media-releas...

#JuneKnowWhatIMean #CanadaDays 🍁 Lhasa De Sela - “This is a song w/ for *ssholes” 🎼Did you ever believe the lies that you told? Did you earn the Fool’s Gold that you gave me? One of the precious, beautiful & intimate LIVE 🎥 in a Montreal attic by Patrick Moon

Allison Russell #AllisonRussell #haiku #haikuSaturday #BlackLavender ************************* Love is the Answer Love is Always the Answer The Answer is Love *************************

#JuneKnowWhatIMean Sade x Why can’t we live together? LIVE 1984 🎼No matter what colour You are still my brother Allison Russell ✍🏽 A mixed heritage black woman like me - not fitting easily into any box - transcending them all. A living breathing goddess m.youtube.com/watch?v=LIgI...

🎶 Allison Russell ♥️ ♥️ Brittney Spencer 🎶

💥ALLISON RUSSELL NEW MUSIC ALERT 💥 🖤 Black Lavender ft Brittney Spencer The wonderful Brittney Spencer first collaborated with Allison on her US mainstream TV debut of Nightflyer 🎶 m.youtube.com/watch?v=UNHO...

#JuneKnowWhatIMean #Juneteenth She survived & she founded generations. Allison Russell’s tribute to her enslaved ancestor Our Native Daughters (AR, Rhiannon Giddens, Leyla McCalla Amythyst Kiah) 🪕 🪕 🪕 🪕 🎼You’re free now, you’re free now How does your spirit fly?

#JuneKnowWhatIMean It’s been picked before - but this is how it started After her organiser husband avoided an ambush by gun thugs in the Harlan County miners strike, Florence Reece wrote one of the great resistance songs. Her spirit lives on Which Side Are You On?

#JuneKnowWhatIMean Am I too late in asking? 🎼And daddy, won’t you take me back to Mulenberg County Down by the green river where Paradise lay Allison Russell performed at last week’s John Prine tribute at Wolf Trap (in reply) + this lovely star-studded 2021 version m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qi-A...

#JuneKnowWhatIMean #painting #RIP David Hockney. Not often I get the chance to 🔗 Hockney, Da Vinci & Allison so here goes… Andy White x Allison Russell Start All Over Again (fr the 2009 collab 💿 Songwriter) 🎼Miro, Da Vinci David Hockney (David Hockney?) 🎨 😊 m.youtube.com/watch?v=7GzQ...

#JuneKnowWhatIMean Andrea Gibson x MAGA hat in the chemo room AG radiates beauty like no one else 🌈 pls stay till the beautiful end♥️ 🎼[Am I] turning into one of those “Why can’t we all just get along?” people The ones I blame for the fact that no one can get along m.youtube.com/watch?v=WCX-...

Sweet Honey In The Rock x We Shall Overcome (LIVE 1995) Ft Bernice Johnson Reagon telling the story of this 🎶 & its impact on mass civil rights gatherings in the 1960s ♥️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=Grh0...

#GreenAlbumTracks Day 7: Kronos Quartet (with Allison Russell and Willie Nelson) - Hard Rain youtu.be/t7MPITV-AsM?...

🏆 Best Song Heard Today 🏆 Allison Russell feat. Denitia & Kara Jackson - Cold April (2026) Spotify #BestSongHeardToday #Music2026

#MusicChallenge 🎶 #CanadaDays 🍁 Day 25 ~ June 11th Allison Russell - Cold April (ft. Denitia & Kara Jackson) youtu.be/RX18CK_TNXU?... This Montreal lady will be releasing her 3rd album 'In the Hour of Chaos', in July, and we are loving the lead single from it. #WMIM #music #musicsky

Andrea Gibson 🌈 #pridemonth This planet that so desperately wants us to live Of natural causes Like kindness Like caring Like knowing these bodies are clothes we’re all growing out of so quickly until one day We will be only souls Who could see that we all wanted The exact same wish to come true

#JuneKnowWhatIMean Clifton Chenier x Release Me Born June 101 yrs ago, the legendary Louisiana accordion player & King Of Zydeco Another artist I discovered from the new Kara Jackson curated Smithsonian 💿 The weekend starts here! ♥️ 🎵 💃 🎼Won’t you let me go…

#JuneKnowWhatIMean Kara Jackson ✍🏽 Bernice Johnson Reagon’s voice is like a benediction Will The Circle be Unbroken?

#JuneKnowWhatIMean Allison Russell x Kronos Quartet x A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall. 🔥 performance marking 80yrs since the first nuclear test 🎼Where have u been by blue eyed son? Where have u been my darling young one? All children are our children. No exceptions. m.youtube.com/watch?v=sPhX...

#JunKnowWhatIMean Allison Russell x Kronos Quartet x A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall. 🔥 performance marking 80yrs since the first nuclear test 🎼Where have u been by blue eyed son? Where have u been my darling young one? All children are our children. No exceptions.

#JuneKnowWhatIMean Allison Russell singing truth to power 🎼EveWasBlack, didn’t u know? The mother of all was dark & good AR ✍🏽 Black History is…Human History. All the way back to Our Common Mother, Our Shared Ancestor: Mitochondrial Eve (Our DNA traces back to 🌍) m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kadg...

#JuneKnowWhatIMean #Whoops…

#JuneKnowIMean Norah Jones x (classical pianist) Lang Lang x Pink Pony Club (Chappell Roan cover) 🌈 #PrideMonth 🎼”God, what have you done? You’re a Pink Pony girl and you dance at the club” 38:00~ (followed by Lang Lang playing Chopin with an orange 🍊)

#JuneKnowWhatIMean In tribute to all those who sacrificed 🎼Did they beat the drum slowly? Did they play the fife lowly? Did they sound the dead march as they lowered you down? Did the band play the Last Post & Chorus? & did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?

#JuneKnowWhatIMean 🎼Does anyone know where the ❤️ of God goes When the 🌊 turn the minutes to hours? AllisonRussell ✍🏽I grew up singing this at the top of my lungs That’s what 🎶does. It allows us to have empathy for people even tho they are totally different from us m.youtube.com/watch?v=9vST...

Allison Russell ✍🏽 Any book can become a bible Anything that u pay close attention to & ponder in your ♥️, the ways in which it resonates w/ your spirit, the revelations therein… This book is about the power of broken people to come together & help each other heal It’s extraordinary

Linda Perry x Allison Russell ♥️ ♥️ (Details in alt text)

#JuneKnowWhatIMean Anyone else feeling a little peculiar? Linda Perry x The Highwomen 🎼And I scream at the top of my lungs “What’s Going On?” 7yrs before re-uniting at the Gorge last w/e, a timeless LIVE anthem to start your weekend ♥️🌈🎶

#JuneKnowWhatIMean The wonderful Leyla McCalla w/ one of the great questions in song From Allison Russell’s best albums of 2022 🎼How much does a memory weigh? m.youtube.com/watch?v=DLYZ...

#JuneKnowWhatIMean ⚽️ Billy Bragg x Greetings 🎼How can u lie there & think of England If u don’t even know who’s in the team?? ✳️ my fav AR on BB quote ⬇️ Allison Russell ✍🏽 BB said s/thing that resonated w/ such truth: An artist’s currency isn’t art. It’s #empathy ♥️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=ePTW...

#JuneKnowWhatIMean A belated HBD and 1 June #prideMonth to Brandi Carlile 🌈 🥰 The Highwomen ft Allison Russell (LIVE at the Gorge covering The Chicks irreverent revenge anthem) 🎼#GoodbyeEarl Those black-eyed peas They tasted alright to me, Earl You feelin’ weak? 😉 m.youtube.com/watch?v=4Yja...

#JuneKnowWhatIMean John Prine x Far From Me 🎼”Will you still see me tomorrow?” “No, I got too much to do” Well a question ain’t really a question If you know the answer too JP singing LIVE for his songwriting hero Gordon Lightfoot, 2018. He probably still is…❤️‍🩹 7:20~ m.youtube.com/watch?v=w5Rk...

Allison Russell ✍🏽 I was privileged to have a seat to bear witness to Tracy Chapman joining Like Coombs to sing her 🎶 Fast Car live There was not a dry eye. All was right in the World for a spell It has been a powerful joy to watch new generations discover her timeless, timely transcendent art ♥️

#JuneKnowWhatIMean Tracy Chapman x Fast Car 🎼You got a fast car Is it fast enough so we can fly away? The beautiful Grammys 2025 live version ♥️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=pLfH...

I am so deeply grateful. Her artistry, friendship, and love transformed me in so many ways and opened my heart and mind to new experiences, new music, and new musical artists who I now count as friends. I love Alli beyond measure. 💖🪕🎼🎶🎶💖

HBD Allison Russell 🎉 ✍🏽 🎵 actually changes our biochemistry we start breathing together we start moving together & it can be w/ someone u completely disagree with, but we can feel something together in real time & once that happens it becomes much more difficult to dehumanise another human being

#MayBeNot #MusicChallenge HBD to the amazing Allison Russell 🎉 Forever grateful for her 🎵, incredible human spirit & all the 🔥 artists I’ve discovered thru her collabs, community & generosity🙏🏽 😈 O turn around look ‘em in the face They don’t like how sunlight tastes m.youtube.com/watch?v=BH-D...

#MayBeNot #MusicChallenge Woody Guthrie x Deportee 🎼Some days I’m not legal Some days I’m not wanted… I don’t have a name I ride this big airplane They just call me one more deportee In 1948 a gov-chartered ✈️ crashed. A single stone marked 28 unnamed 🇲🇽 deportees m.youtube.com/watch?v=Fpp5...

#IsumasMonthOfMusic A track with unusual vocal techniques ⬇️⬇️ ⬇️ Enjoy!

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#MayBeNot #MusicChallenge #BestSongHeardToday Not in English, no breaths - just 100% awesome Rhiannon Giddens x Mouth Music, LIVE in Glasgow The way the song speeds up from about 1:40~ right to the finale is just breathtaking 🖤 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🎵 m.youtube.com/watch?v=FjzG...

Saw Rhiannon Giddens for possibly the fifth time last night at Wigmore Hall. Possibly the best yet - purely because it was broadcast live and I can listen back. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

#MayBeNot #MusicChallenge Another inspiring, stellar performance by Rhiannon Giddens @rhiannongiddens.bsky.social , Francesco Turrisi & the string quartet at Wigmore Hall last night 🇬🇧 🎼You can take my body You can take my bones You can take my blood But NOT MY SOUL m.youtube.com/watch?v=6vy9...

#MayBeNot #MusicChallenge Rhiannon Giddens in 🇬🇧 today! 😊 Here’s RGs take on Pop Staples’ Freedom Highway 🎼There’s just one thing I can’t understand my friend Why some folks think freedom Was not designed for all men Made up my mind & I won’t turn round m.youtube.com/watch?v=AA-s...

Day 8 of different versions of We Shall Overcome Bruce Springsteen - LIVE in Dublin Heartfelt & powerful version from Bruce ♥️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=KmLf...

#MayBeNot #MusicChallenge Allison Russell ✍🏽 You are not what you’ve lost. You are not what someone did to you. Yes, that’s part of the story…But it doesn’t define you. Birds of Chicago x Lodestar (burning from within) m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gzkl...

#MayBeNot #MusicChallenge Kris Kristofferson x Sister Sinead Don’t let the bastards get you down m.youtube.com/watch?v=3HwW...

Day 7 of different versions of We Shall Overcome 🔥 Mahalia Jackson LIVE in Sweden 🎼If in my heart I do believe Hallelujah 💥 3:11~ walk off from 🎤 moment “If in my ♥️” were the lines of the OG hymn We Will Overcome by Charles Tindley, son of a former slave in c1900 m.youtube.com/watch?v=TmR1...